Hello everyone,

according to the internal Community Contributor Wargaming forum post by Tuccy from today (should he be spreading it earlier than the release?), official 9.0 info (probably the ASAP magazine, but Edrard also mentioned a bunch of official screenshots coming this week) will arrive at 16:00 CET tomorrow. Looking forward to it :)

Tuccy: “Ahojte, pánové, Během dneška dostaneme nějaké nové informace k 9.0, které jsou určeny ke zveřejnění zítra v 16:00 SEČ. Kdo má zájem?”

(“Hi gentlemen, today, we will get some new pieces of info for 9.0, that are intended for publishing tomorrow at 16:00 CET. Who’s interested?”)

Tsk, tsk, tsk…

Hello everyone,

just quick heads up: today at 7PM (+1, CET), I will be a guest at Rita’s stream, talking about WoT, answering questions and such… like last time. Hope to see you there!

SS

Messages first, so it has the right impact… :)

A message from L.D.: “Follow the WUB rabbit”
A message from F.S.: “”Hami + Xensation = ❤”
A message from Andoman42: “Have fun and keep on tanking!”

Hello everyone,

as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.

Contributors

Andoman42 (Finland) – a message to the readers: “Have fun and keep on tanking!”
F.S. (Germany) – message to the readers: “Hami + Xensation = ❤”
KingRooster (Germany)
L.D. (Germany) – message to the readers: “Follow the WUB rabbit”
Sawan (Ireland)

Please note that if you want your full real name or nickname listed, you have to write me your nickname (or your consent for full name publication) :)

You can also leave a message you want published.

Hello everyone,

the International Woman’s Day weekend is gone, so this post might be a little less actual than I actually intended – but nevertheless, I think it’s worth seeing, because this is one of the funniest things Wargaming ever produced. Check this out, this is the World of Tanks video from Russian server (it was never translated to other languages):

It says:

“We made a survey and found out that there are many more woman players than there are men players”

First one: Olga, 34 years, proud of her son, has mastery badge on all vehicles
Mother: “Why did you go through the center?”
Son: “Well, everyone went through there”
Mother: “And if everyone starts shooting their teammates, you will do that too, yes?”
Mother: “I believe in you so much that I told everyone you are better with heavies and scouts”

Second one: Anna, 22 years, loves to cook borsch and to play it (SS: “Borsch”, apart from being traditional Russian soup, is also a Russian nickname for WT RhB)

Third one: Katya, 25 years, Julia, 26 let, friends, they play artillery in platoon
Katya: “I don’t know which one to take first, winter or summer”
Julia: “Listen, camouflage is not the most important thing, the most important is to level up camo skill and the light bulb” (SS: “light bulb” (lampochka) is Russian nickname for Sixth Sense”)
(seeing the guys) Katya: “….and he can’t screw in the light bulb for an enire week!”

Fourth one: Victoria, 30 years, lovers her husband, 64 percent winrate
Victoria: “He was directly in your aim circle and you missed. You NOOB!”
Victoria: “Noob”

“Conclusion: Actually, there are significantly fewer woman players than men. But that’s the reason we love them and value them even more.”

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Part 1

The T-100Z makes for a reasonable tier 6 choice.

T-100Z

The T-100Z is basically a KV-2 with a bonus 45 mm gun turret in the front. It even uses the same gun. The armour is the same as on the T-100, 60 mm, but that’s the price you pay if you want a little bonus firepower for plinking away at things your massive main gun can’t quite one-shot. Also, unlike a lot of tanks in this game, it saw combat! So historical!

Leningrad Front: A tank made into a pillbox. Photograph by special photographer A. Kapustyanskiy

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Source: Reddit thread

Hello everyone,

last night, an American streamer Sela was banned for using illegal mods online. It can be seen here (4h 26min mark). Apparently, it was because he was using following mods:

- white tank corpses (I think that’s actually legal)
- falling trees indicator (definitely illegal)
- enemy tank reload timers (apparently illegal)

While many people got butthurt over this decision, I actually support it (if it was the way the reddit post claims it to be). Guys – keep in mind:

ANY mod that gives you an unfair advantage in the game is illegal

Even without a taxative list of banned mods, this rule applies on all the servers of World of Tanks. Russians have a comprehensive list of banned mods, while (as far as I know) EU and US servers don’t, but either way, using common sense, anyone is able to figure out that especially stuff like fallen trees detectors is fishy.

Current banned mods on both EU and US servers:

- 3d hitskins
- laser pointers
- defoliants (leaf and tree removers)
- falling tree (and destroyed object) detector
- enemy reload timers (not sure here)

Did I forget anything? Let me know please.

Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2825352.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok posted something quite interesting not long ago – he demonstrated that the origins of the T-28 suspension actually started with… Krupp. Check this out. It is well known, that since Soviet Russia and Germany were allies before the war, German tanks were tested on a polygon near Kazan. These tests included the Grosstraktor prototoype vehicles (one of which was made by Krupp).

Russian engineers of course weren’t blind and in the internal Russian correspondence, the T-28 suspension is referred to as “Krupp suspension”. To compare, this is the T-28 suspension:

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And this is what the log is for… :)